NOTES ON ACTING, an intermittent journal about acting on stage and film, as well as in life.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Working on My Big Ten

I'm off-book for Oberon, Polonius, Henry IV, Richard III (first speech), Capulet, Caesar, and Caliban. I'm having trouble deciding on pairings. I understand this is true of everyone, including students from past years. Jack would like us to make these 'contrast' in so many ways, that we get ourselves tangled up in options. I'm doing all verse pieces by characters for whom I'm age appropriate, so I'm finding that characters fall into a relatively narrow range. They're more or less all older authority figures. Here's a possible order: